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Date: Tuesday, April 5
Time: 6:30-8:30 pm
Location: Axelrad (1517 Alabama St.)
Join Bayou Buddies, BBP's young professionals group, for BBP's spring fundraiser – Bayou Bash! Bayou Buddies will kick off Bayou Bash with a happy hour at Axelrad where you can learn more about the event, meet our Bayou Buddies Steering Committee, Bayou Bash Host Committee, purchase tickets to the event and enjoy refreshing $3 Saint Arnold Lawnmowers.
Let us know you’re coming by RSVPing on our Facebook event!
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Date: Saturday, April 23
Time: 12-4 pm
Location: The Water Works (105 Sabine Street)
Tickets are now on sale for this afternoon featuring crawfish, libations, a silent auction, live music and more!
Pre-Sale Tickets (closes on Friday, April 22 at 5 pm): $35 for current Bayou Buddies members (with promo code) / $40 for non-members
Day of Event: $45 for current Bayou Buddies members / $50 for non-members
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Sponsorship and silent auction opportunities still available! Should you have any questions, please contact Sylvana Loc at sloc@buffalobayou.org or 713.752.0314 ext. 104.
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Celebrate National Poetry Month
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To celebrate National Poetry Month in April, Writers in the Schools (WITS) is partnering with local artists to transform trees to “Poet Trees” in Buffalo Bayou Park (east of Lost Lake), Discovery Green, East End Esplanade on Navigation, and the Houston Public Library in The Heights. Members of the community are encouraged to interact with the Poet Trees by writing lines to poems on tags and hanging them on branches and wires surrounding the trees. For more information about the Poet Tree locations and details, visit witshouston.org.
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H-E-B Coupon benefiting EarthShare of Texas and BBP!
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BBP is pleased to announce that H-E-B, in recognition of Earth Day, has selected EarthShare of Texas to be the April beneficiary for its in-store coupon promotion. This means that customers can tear off and add check-out coupons worth $1, $3, or $5 to their total bill to support environmental work throughout the State of Texas for the entire month of April.
H-E-B supports many EarthShare of Texas organizations with corporate grants or in-kind contributions. The April tear-pad promotion is different as it enables H-E-B customers to bolster the diverse environmental program work of more than three dozen EarthShare of Texas’ organizations, including Buffalo Bayou Partnership. The customers’ dollars will go directly to these organizations.
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photo by Katya Horner/Slight Clutter Photography
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Date: Thursday, April 21
Time: 6-9 pm; sales begin at 6 pm; games begin at 7 pm
Location: Market Square Park (corner of Preston and Travis streets)
This popular event is back at Market Square Park! Join BBP and the Downtown District for the first Blanket Bingo event of the year. Bring your blanket, lawn chairs or snag one of the tables at the park for a night of fun, music and great prizes! $10 admission includes one bingo packet (approx. 9 games). Additional games and daubers can be purchased for $1 each. Proceeds benefit BBP and Historic Market Square Park. Get there early as cards sell out quickly!
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On Saturday, March 19, volunteers helped mulch areas of the Johnny Steele Dog Park.
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Buffalo Bayou Partnership relies on volunteers to help maintain Buffalo Bayou Park. Individuals and groups are invited to help keep the park green and growing! Bring your own gloves and BBP will provide any needed tools.
Monthly Volunteer Day
Date: Saturday, Apri 16
Time: 8:30 to 11:30 am
Parking: City Lot H (1643 Memorial Drive)
Check-In Location: Wortham Insurance Visitor Center at The Water Works (105 Sabine Street)
To sign up, please complete an online volunteer waiver with the event date 04/16/2016.
Have a larger group that wants to volunteer or need more information about our volunteer program? Contact Sarah McIntire at smcintire@buffalobayou.org or 713-752-0314 ext. 303.
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Buffalo Bayou Walking Tour
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Enjoy a free, one-hour walking tour presented by BBP and Katy Prairie Conservancy, Buffalo Bayou – from Mastodons to Marathons. Led by Texas Master Naturalists, the tour will highlight how the landscape and ecology of 19th century Texas created Houston, as well as the importance of prairies in rebuilding this astonishing and all but vanished ecosystem.
Date: Saturday, April 16
Time: 10:30 to 11:30 am
Check-In Location: Wortham Insurance Visitor Center at The Water Works (105 Sabine Street)
RSVPs are required; 25 person max
If you would like to attend this walking tour, please RSVP to Sylvana Loc at sloc@buffalobayou.org or 713-752-0314 ext. 104.
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Thanks for visiting Buffalo Bayou Park!
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We continue to be pleased by the sheer number and diversity of visitors to Buffalo Bayou Park. In February, Houston-Galveston Area Council (H-GAC) installed temporary pedestrian/bicycle counters in 12 locations throughout the 160-acre park. The counters were in place for a two-week period, and three counters stopped collecting data a few days before they were retrieved as they reached maximum storage capacity (approximately 14,000 users) – this has only happened once before, according to H-GAC! You can read the full report here. Thank you so much for making Buffalo Bayou Park a vibrant and popular greenspace in this city!
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TIGER Trail in Downtown Now Open
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A little rain did not stop us from officially opening the Buffalo Bayou Path: Smith Street to Travis Street TIGER Trail yesterday morning. Thanks to a generous $1 million donation from BBP board member, Mike Garver, BBP was the project sponsor of the $4.6 million TIGER trail that now connects Sesquicentennial Park to Allen’s Landing in downtown.
BBP partnered with the Houston Parks & Recreation Department, Houston Parks Board and Greater East End Management District to provide matching dollars for trails along Buffalo and White Oak Bayous, and on-street connections in the East End.
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